I think Sun's move to open source was more of a desperate ploy to become relevant again through the mistaken belief that people would flock to their software if it were free (when, of course, nobody actually wanted their software at all).
If people valued economy over everything, everyone would buy $1000 used cars and nothing else would be on the road. That's clearly not the world we live in, because most people are not trying to make efficiencies to survive, they've actually got gobs of money to waste on things they don't really need and are eager to do so. People want luxury, not efficiency. Owning their own car allows them to feel more important, and to avoid those 5 minutes waits. That will surely be more valuable to them than things like "new car smell" or power windows or trendy model names that they're currently tossing thousands of dollars at. Perhaps the poor will share vehicles, but the majority of the USA will not.
The human trafficking is quite real and large scale. While it's enabled by anti-prostitution laws which make it easier to hide sex slavery, that doesn't make the exploitation any less reprehensible, nor does it mean that the Johns have no moral responsibility for it. The law should be changed to fight trafficking, but until then these guys are despicable because they quite likely realize what's going on.
Not to mention the perhaps biggest danger: impatient people, who think shaving a minute off wherever they're going is more important than safety and traffic rules.
From a practical standpoint, colonizing the moon makes more sense than Mars. But humans are not practical animals, and they find Mars more interesting.
The goal should be a world where nuclear weapons are under the control of responsible organizations with clear rules and safeguards preventing inappropriate use of them, while still threatening use against bad actors in appropriately extreme circumstances of wide consensus. That would be far safer than a world without nuclear weapons.
For how many apartment dwellers is that true for again?
There's no inherent problem with plugging in at work, or at the library, or the many other places with connections -- especially if you have Tesla range and thus don't need to plug in very often. I live in an apartment and am self-employed so can't plug in at work, but if it made financial sense (which it won't for me for a very long time) I'd be happy to buy an electric and just plug it in while I'm at the library or walking a trail that has plugin spots in the lot. I drive about 400 miles a month so I'd only need to do that every couple of weeks.
If conventional gas stations were situated where you could just stick the pump in and wander off for a walk or do some shopping, it would be much more pleasant even if it took way longer. Unfortunately gas stations can never do that because of the environmental hazards.
A replacement transportation system works only if it works for EVERYONE.
That is simply not the case. There's no problem with having variety. Some vehicles are diesel, some gas, some electric, some CNG, and you can try to sell hydrogen cars for all I care.
The goal of war is not to improve the supply of oil, it's to profit. Halliburton and many others made their money from contracts they'd never have gotten without the war.
I suspect that packages may be more likely to be stolen from rich neighborhoods than poor neighborhoods -- because they're much more likely to have something valuable in them. I live in a low income apartment complex project. and nobody has ever stolen any of my amazon packages, which are often left outside by my door for a day. Thieves and neighbors probably realize I can't afford any orders worth the risk of stealing.
Let's consider that it's a huge system, and no one guy can really control it. That's why new presidents always change less than people expect. A president is either entirely unaware of 99% of cases like this, or sees it for 10 seconds of very biased presentation by a bureaucrat looking for a rubber stamp.
What this particular launch did was put a communications satellite into geosynchronous orbit over the pacific coast of Asia. If you live in east Asia, you may use it. If not, you won't use this particular satellite. Either way, you more than likely use communications of some sort and will thus benefit from lower bills and improved service from cheaper satellite launches. For example, in the coming years you may be able to post your slashdot comments with a cost-effective large swarm of LEO internet satellites (which would minimize latency).
There are, however, numerous places in our own solar system which could satisfy all the life conditions we know of -- inside several moons, under the surface of Mars, maybe even inside Pluto. Not just in our habitable zone. Of course, life in an internal ocean is unlikely to be able to develop space technology even if it is intelligent.
If you're talking about a company with significant revenue and employees and such, perhaps they can handle the burden. What about the millions of people selling stuff on their own? What about people making maybe a few thousand a year selling stuff as a side business? Kill off all that economic activity with the burden of calculating and remitting all these different taxes and the economy would suffer considerably.
If you can't tell Al Gore apart from a scientist or a movie apart from a climate science article, you should probably be disqualified from ever trying to discuss the subject.
I use less than 30 GB a month. That's a tenth of the old limit and less than a thirtieth of the new limit. Instead of paying my $50 a month bill as usual, can I return my unused portion for a $45 discount? Odds of that ever happening are of course zero.
Considerate people are, in fact, where they say they'll be before the designated time. I'll wait a few minutes rather than rudely force the other party to wait.
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Of course, expensive non-redistributable commercial software can provide source code too (as mine does) and that can address some of the issues.
If the open source community were about something other than advocating open source, it would need to renamed.
I think Sun's move to open source was more of a desperate ploy to become relevant again through the mistaken belief that people would flock to their software if it were free (when, of course, nobody actually wanted their software at all).
If people valued economy over everything, everyone would buy $1000 used cars and nothing else would be on the road. That's clearly not the world we live in, because most people are not trying to make efficiencies to survive, they've actually got gobs of money to waste on things they don't really need and are eager to do so. People want luxury, not efficiency. Owning their own car allows them to feel more important, and to avoid those 5 minutes waits. That will surely be more valuable to them than things like "new car smell" or power windows or trendy model names that they're currently tossing thousands of dollars at. Perhaps the poor will share vehicles, but the majority of the USA will not.
The human trafficking is quite real and large scale. While it's enabled by anti-prostitution laws which make it easier to hide sex slavery, that doesn't make the exploitation any less reprehensible, nor does it mean that the Johns have no moral responsibility for it. The law should be changed to fight trafficking, but until then these guys are despicable because they quite likely realize what's going on.
Not to mention the perhaps biggest danger: impatient people, who think shaving a minute off wherever they're going is more important than safety and traffic rules.
From a practical standpoint, colonizing the moon makes more sense than Mars. But humans are not practical animals, and they find Mars more interesting.
The goal should be a world where nuclear weapons are under the control of responsible organizations with clear rules and safeguards preventing inappropriate use of them, while still threatening use against bad actors in appropriately extreme circumstances of wide consensus. That would be far safer than a world without nuclear weapons.
"Local" in this context means local to where the story takes place, not local to you.
There's no inherent problem with plugging in at work, or at the library, or the many other places with connections -- especially if you have Tesla range and thus don't need to plug in very often. I live in an apartment and am self-employed so can't plug in at work, but if it made financial sense (which it won't for me for a very long time) I'd be happy to buy an electric and just plug it in while I'm at the library or walking a trail that has plugin spots in the lot. I drive about 400 miles a month so I'd only need to do that every couple of weeks.
If conventional gas stations were situated where you could just stick the pump in and wander off for a walk or do some shopping, it would be much more pleasant even if it took way longer. Unfortunately gas stations can never do that because of the environmental hazards.
That is simply not the case. There's no problem with having variety. Some vehicles are diesel, some gas, some electric, some CNG, and you can try to sell hydrogen cars for all I care.
The goal of war is not to improve the supply of oil, it's to profit. Halliburton and many others made their money from contracts they'd never have gotten without the war.
I suspect that packages may be more likely to be stolen from rich neighborhoods than poor neighborhoods -- because they're much more likely to have something valuable in them. I live in a low income apartment complex project. and nobody has ever stolen any of my amazon packages, which are often left outside by my door for a day. Thieves and neighbors probably realize I can't afford any orders worth the risk of stealing.
Let's consider that it's a huge system, and no one guy can really control it. That's why new presidents always change less than people expect. A president is either entirely unaware of 99% of cases like this, or sees it for 10 seconds of very biased presentation by a bureaucrat looking for a rubber stamp.
What this particular launch did was put a communications satellite into geosynchronous orbit over the pacific coast of Asia. If you live in east Asia, you may use it. If not, you won't use this particular satellite. Either way, you more than likely use communications of some sort and will thus benefit from lower bills and improved service from cheaper satellite launches. For example, in the coming years you may be able to post your slashdot comments with a cost-effective large swarm of LEO internet satellites (which would minimize latency).
There are, however, numerous places in our own solar system which could satisfy all the life conditions we know of -- inside several moons, under the surface of Mars, maybe even inside Pluto. Not just in our habitable zone. Of course, life in an internal ocean is unlikely to be able to develop space technology even if it is intelligent.
If you're talking about a company with significant revenue and employees and such, perhaps they can handle the burden. What about the millions of people selling stuff on their own? What about people making maybe a few thousand a year selling stuff as a side business? Kill off all that economic activity with the burden of calculating and remitting all these different taxes and the economy would suffer considerably.
If you can't tell Al Gore apart from a scientist or a movie apart from a climate science article, you should probably be disqualified from ever trying to discuss the subject.
People in Tuscon are wealthy enough to own air conditioning.
Okular has always worked for me for filling out PDF tax forms. I don't doubt that there are some complex PDFs it fails at though.
It's for Linux. Most of don't have working GPU drivers.
If Pakistan were launching an invasion, sure, they'd detect it. But would the average terrorist?
I use less than 30 GB a month. That's a tenth of the old limit and less than a thirtieth of the new limit. Instead of paying my $50 a month bill as usual, can I return my unused portion for a $45 discount? Odds of that ever happening are of course zero.
So if each person in India only accidentally activates it once, that's a billion false alarms. I'd imagine that has costs.
Considerate people are, in fact, where they say they'll be before the designated time. I'll wait a few minutes rather than rudely force the other party to wait.
You must've had some pretty severe pre-existing injuries if your body couldn't handle walking 2.5 miles.